World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Monty's Turn

For most of last week the days were
fine and there was springlike warmth west of the Cologne plain, where
the Germans expect the heaviest blows of U.S. and British power to
fall.

The war seemed far away, except when the Germans sent over another swarm
of V-bombs. G.I.s of the U.S. Ninth and First Armies brought out
baseballs, played catch. Along some sectors not an enemy prisoner was
taken. Patrols could not operate. There was nothing to do but to let
nature and the Roer River take their course, according to German plan.